Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Evocation of a particular state of mind resulting from the recurrence of one of the elements that made up the original experience.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of redintegrating; recombination, restoration, or reconstruction; restoration to a whole or sound state.
- noun In chem., the restoration of any mixed body or matter to its former nature and constitution.
- noun In psychology, the law that those elements which have previously been combined as parts of a single mental state tend to recall or suggest one another—a term adopted by many psychologists to express phenomena of mental association.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Restoration to a whole or sound state; renewal; renovation.
- noun (Chem.), Achaic. Restoration of a mixed body or matter to its former nature and state.
- noun (Psychology) The law that objects which have been previously combined as part of a single mental state tend to recall or suggest one another; -- adopted by many philosophers to explain the phenomena of the association of ideas.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rare
Restoration to a whole or sound state. - noun chemistry, obsolete Restoration of a
mixture to its former nature and state. - noun psychology The
reinstatement of amemory upon the presentation of astimulus element that was a part of the stimuluscomplex that had aroused the event.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The disintegration of mental forms and their redintegration is the life of the imagination.
The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory George Santayana 1907
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It even appears that in the two instances there is rather an antagonism since heightened memory comes near to the ideal law of total redintegration, which is, as we know, a hindrance to invention.
Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron 1877
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The exasperations of the war, and the still more acrimonious exasperations of the period of the political reconstruction and of the organization of northern missions at the South, gendered strifes that still delay the redintegration which is so visibly future of both of these divided denominations.
A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897
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When I read the story of her redintegration I began to realize something of the wonderful recuperative powers of the human soul.
Madeleine: An Autobiography Madeleine 1919
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IF I dwell at some length on the story of my ancestry and my childhood it is for the purpose of setting forth the elements of weakness and of strength which were inherent in my character and which, combined with the circumstance of my life, brought about my social bankruptcy and made possible my spiritual redintegration.
Madeleine: An Autobiography Madeleine 1919
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When I read the story of her redintegration I began to realize something of the wonderful recuperative powers of the human soul.
Madeleine An Autobiography Anonymous 1919
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IF I dwell at some length on the story of my ancestry and my childhood it is for the purpose of setting forth the elements of weakness and of strength which were inherent in my character and which, combined with the circumstance of my life, brought about my social bankruptcy and made possible my spiritual redintegration.
Madeleine An Autobiography Anonymous 1919
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Emancipation – civilization – redintegration of a great nation,
Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 Maud Howe Elliott 1915
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St. Paulinus in one of his letters refers to the redintegration of the Cross, i.e. that it never grew smaller in size, no matter how many pieces were detached from it.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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We may say that there were two dangers which constantly impended over the Roman Empire from its inauguration by Augustus to its redintegration by Diocletian -- a
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 Rossiter Johnson 1906
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